Drive (Incubus song)

"Drive" is a song by American alternative rock band Incubus, from their 1999 album Make Yourself. It was released as a single in 2001 and is considered to be the band's biggest hit and breakthrough single, eventually reaching the top of Billboard's modern rock charts and #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. The music video is based on M.C. Escher's Drawing Hands. This song appears in the Daria movie Is it College Yet?.

It is a playable track in the North American and European versions of the Donkey Konga 2 videogame and also appears in the soundtrack for the film Surf's Up.

The song appears in the game Karaoke Revolution Party.

Musical qualities and influences

The song is what is widely described as mellow, featuring mostly acoustic instruments and grounded both musically and lyrically in a very relaxing and positive ambiance.

Live

When played live, the song is performed in a number of different ways; unplugged with Mike and Brandon, the full band with Mike playing Guitar, or the remixed version, centering around Ben Kenney's amplified and reconstructed bass melodies, with Mike playing an electric piano (as seen on the Alive at Red Rocks DVD).

Music video

The music video is a simple jam session intercut with an animation of Brandon Boyd drawing himself (the beginning of which is reminiscent of 'Drawing Hands', a lithograph work by Dutch artist M. C. Escher). Many scenes were shot in the McNamara Alumni Center on the University of Minnesota campus and in Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia